Collapsible canopy-frame.



` W. H. SNYDER.

COLLAPSIBLE CANOPY FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED 11111.29, 1912.

1,072,049. Patented s111112, 1913.

` Cgj? WITNESSES g ATTORNEYS COLUMBIA PLANOURAPH C0., WASHINGTON. Dt c WILLIAM H. SNYDER, 0F WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

COLLAPSIBLE CANOPY-FRAME Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

Application filed August 29d, 1912. Serial No. 717,667.

'o all whom it may concern Be it known that l, lVlLmAM Il. Snrnnn, a citizen of the Unite( States, residing in the city of lllashington, Distriet of Columhia, have invented a new and useful Collapsible Canopy-Frame, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a collapsible frame for supporting a mosquito-net, canopy or other shelter.

It further consis s of such a frame which may he adjusted lengthwise according to requirements.

It further consists of other' novel features of construction, all as Will loc hereinafter' fully set forth.

The annexed drawings and the following description set forth in detail one mechanical form embodying the invention, such detail construction being but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of the invention may be used.

In said annexed drawings Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved device, mounted to support a protecting net and disclosing a cot and a sleeping person on the same beneath the protecting canopy formed by the frame and net. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal section of the frame. Fig. 3 represents a transverse section of the same. Fig. e represents a top plan view of a portion of the frame. Fig. 5 represents a side elevation of the collapsed and folded frame. Fig. (3 represents a top plan View of the same. Fig. 7 represents a side view of the central section of the telescoping ridge-pole.

A ridge-pole for supporting the middle of the tent or canopy fabric, 1, consists of a central bar, 2, having a block, S, near one end of its upper side, and having a block, 4:, near the opposite end of its under side, and formed with holes, 5 and G, adjacent such blocks. End-sections, 7 and 8, having longitudinal slots, 9 and 10, are secured to slide or telescope upon the upper and under side of the middle section, upon bolts, 11 and 19 having thumb-nuts, 13 and 14:, and projecting through the slots in the end-sections. The blocks upon the middle-section engage the slots and serve to guide the sections and keep them in alinement. T-shaped heads, 15, Ihave their shanks pivoted upon bolts, 1G, in the outer' ends of the slots of the end sections, and said Shanks have rounded lower corners, 17, so that they may fold under said sections, while their ends may abut againstblocks, 18, in the slots, so that the T-heads cannot fold upward. Slotted arms 19, are piyoted upon holls, 90, in the ends of the T-hcads, and the ends of said arms have shoulders, 2l, which may bear against lugs, 2Q, upon the T-heads to retain said arms in inclined position when they are folded outward to form the gables of the canopy structure. Legs, Q3, are pivoted in the outer ends of the slots of the arms to fold into the same and to hear against cross-pieces, 9A.at the ends of the slots when folded outward and downward.

lVhen the frame is not in use, the sections of the ridge-pole are telescoped, as disclosed in Figs. 5 and (S, the legs are folded into the slots of the arms, and the arms are folded on the sides of the ridge-pole sections lwith the T-heads folded douf'nucird. ln this condi tion the frame is so compactly folded that a frame of sullicient size to support a` cover for a grown person can he carried in a valise or knapsaclc. l/Vhen the frame is to be used, the ridge-pole is drawn out to the required length and secured by tightening the thumb-nuts, the arms and legs are folded out to rest upon the ground and form the gables of the frame and the cover placed upon the frame.

The frame may serre to support netting to protect a person against. insects, or it may support a cloth or water-proofcd fabric to form a dog-tent or similar shelter. The dcvice is easily portable and very convenient for campers, soldiers, or other persons sleeping out of doors.

Other modes of applying the principle of my invention may he employed for the mode herein explained. Change may therefore he made as regards the mechanism thus disclosed provided the principles of construction set forth, respectively in the following claim are employed.

Having thus described my invention, what. I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A collapsible canopy frame, comprising a central ridge pole section 2 having blocks 3 and 4t respectively upon the upper and under sides of its opposite ends, longitudinally slotted end sections 7 and 8 slidable upon said blocks, fastening devices for securing said central section and end sections with respect to each other, heads 15 having shanks thereon pivoted in the outer ends of the slots in said end sections, blocks 18 formpivoted to said arms 19, and Cross pieces 24: ing abutments for the Shanks of said heads, for retaining said legs in inclined position. and preventing the latter from moving up- Y Wardly, slotted arms 19 pivoted upon said WILLIAM H SNYDER' heads and hsv/ing shoulders 21 thereon, lugs Witnesses: K l 22 carried by said heads for causing said W. THEO. BENSON, arms 19 to stand in inclined position, legs EUGENE S, COCHRAN.V

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